In response to my esteemed colleague Sam Beans claim that United and City were going to be fighting
it out for third and fourth respectively, leaving Liverpool conspicuously out of the picture, I
wanted to remind everybody that at this moment, we have more points in our first five (9) than
United had last year in their first five (8).

With the Champions League beginning today I thought it would be a good idea to handicap the
groups.

GROUP A
Should Go Through: Juventus and Bayern Munchen
Clearly the top two teams in the group and two of the larger clubs in Europe. While neither team
has a cake walk to the second round, both should progress without too much difficulty.

The above scoreline will be a wonderful sight to all Liverpool fans. Yossi scored three times and
Dirk had one as Liverpool cruise to a comfortable victory. Benayoun was terrific throughout, as
were Dirk, Riera, Gerrard and Lucas. Liverpool took some time getting into the game, but after
about 20 minutes, completely controlled the game and never really looked in danger.

International breaks are like the plot of a Steven Segal movie, they're necessary and provide a
little something but you really just want to hurry through it and get to the action. Players can
get injured and most of the time they're just pointless friendlies. However, this international
break did provide more intrigue than most.

250 million pounds.
Taste it.
Swish it around in your mouth for a moment.

Now spit it out because that's roughly the amount of money that Chelsea F.C, have spent on buying
players since 2004. Now, the team that has become synonymous with major spending, at least before
Real Madrid's summer spending spree, is banned from buying anybody for the next two transfer
windows.

This fall Sam Bean will be traveling to Europe to go to pubs, party, have Eurotrip like
experiences, and, most of all, attend as many football matches as possible. As part of this trip I
will post regularly about the games I attend and anything else that might be interesting. My first
game will probably be September 26, Fulham vs.

The Positives: Man utd. won the game. How exactly? I have no freaking clue. They were outclassed
and outplayed. They held possession of the ball at times but did absolutely nothing going forward
with it most of the time. They simply lacked the creativity to break down the Arsenal defense. Yet
they won.

Sam Bean checking in for my first post. I'm the resident Arsenal fan and well that puts me in not
the best mood today.

We completely dominated Manure today only to find a way to lose. In a game that saw us without our
captain and midfield maestro, Cesc Fabregas, we still managed to control the game pretty much from
start to finish.

Liverpool came from behind twice to be 3-2 victors in what was a extremely ugly game, made all the
more ugly by my inability to find a good English online stream for the game. Every time I got a
working stream it was soon shut down by whoever polices the Internet (i blame it's creator, Al
Gore).

After what was a very successful summer, the MNT is back for two important WCQ. I wanted to talk
about the starting XI I would like to see for the qualifiers. It features Tim Howard in goal, a
standout for Everton and the USMNT alike for some time now. Howard is a legend, and has to be one
of the top 5 keepers in the world, his selection is a no-doubter.

This is Colin Britton here, resident Liverpool fan. Tomorrow the Red's will travel to the Reebok
stadium to take on Bolton Wanderers. First off, the Red's obviously have not had the best of starts
to the season, losing two of their first three, to Spurs and Villa, with a good victory at Stoke
sandwiched between.

This is the official first post for the new blog, Footie in the USA. The blog will be run and
penned by Colin Britton and Sam Bean. We will feature regular posts pertaining to soccer (or
football), focusing on the English Premier League and the US Men's National Team. Stay tuned for
more posts from both of the two authors.